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• In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the writers, like Chinua Achebe, and I wanted to be able to write rhymes that were as potent as what I was reading.

  Mos Def

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating.

  Ani DiFranco

  New York, Mean, Animal

  "Ani DiFranco, Then and Now". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2010.

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• When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

  Beth Ditto

  Mom, House, Machines

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2007.

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• I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.

  Drake

  Rap, Melody

  "On the Cover: Drake". Interview with Claire Hoffman, www.gq.com. April 13, 2012.

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• I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

  Hilary Duff

  Going For It, Driven, Wanted

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

  Eliza Dushku

  School, Boston, Grew Up

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 27, 2009.

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• I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

  Steve Earle

  Towns, Neighbor, Known

  Twitter post from Jun 28, 2012

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• My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

  Sylvia Earle

  Florida, Parent, Backyards

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• It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.

  Sylvia Earle

  Oil, Long, Size

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• Santa Monica Bay is less polluted today than when I first moved to the area in the 1970s, because actions have been taken to avoid putting some of the noxious materials into the sea. I think people are more aware than they once were, the air is cleaner, water generally is, in spite of the fact that there are more people.

  Sylvia Earle

  Taken, Thinking, Air

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• I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

  Clint Eastwood

  Taken, Break, Advantage

  "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. February 25, 2005.

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• We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.

  Roger Ebert

  Wealth, Economic, Chains

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.577, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

  Umberto Eco

  Writing, Past, Trying

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• I had a gypsy upbringing, so I moved around all over the place and can't remember a street I grew up on.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Gypsy, Remember, Grew Up

  "Questions and answers with Vanessa Hudgens". Interview with Robert Desalvo, www.mtv.com. August 21, 2013.

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• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  Danica McKellar

  Couple, Years, Acting

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• The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

  Patricia Ireland

  Numbers, Statistics, Blame

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• I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Imagination, Alive, World

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• Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

  Jesse Jackson

  Government, America, Risk

  Interview With Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2000.

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• When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'

  LeBron James

  Mom, Mother, Years

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• But I was always a bit of a gypsy, anyway. I spent five years at Oklahoma State, five years at Miami and moved on after winning the national championship, and five years with the Cowboys. So, I was ready to move on. We won back-to-back Super Bowls, and I felt that I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish.

  Jimmy Johnson

  Moving, Winning, Cowboy

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• When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

  Norah Jones

  Country, New York, Texas

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• I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

  Norah Jones

  New York, Expectations, Records

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• In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Thinking, Trying

  "Millencamp Talks About Writing Musical With Stephen King" by Archive-Eric-Schumacher-Rasmussen, www.mtv.com. August 20, 2001.

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• When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Past, Saving, Eras

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• I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.

  Mila Kunis

  Ukraine, Grew Up, Grew

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